Yoga Basic & Cycling at Golden Palm Tree (Day 4 Part 1)

If there’s one class I would avoid in gym, that class would be a yoga class. When Raja Murni announced that we were scheduled for yoga after our night stay at Canary Palm Villa Golden Palm Tree , I received it with mixed feeling – excited and awkward. The idea of union between individual conscious and the universe conscious is an alien to me. I know for certain, yoga is about releasing the physical, mental, energetic, emotional and psychological blocks that limit our potential. The clumsiness within me halted any chance to attain a moksha.

We have been forewarned to take light breakfast so that we could do our utmost best for yoga. Knowing my appetite, who cares. Before we went up to the open space near Escapade Spa, I took some pictures of the Infinity Pool and its morning reflection. Tell me now, what you think!

As expected, I failed miserably on my first attempt at yoga. If I am a car, I would definitely be subjected to balancing treatment. I’m like off balance. Kus Andi and Hijrah had the most beautiful yoga posture, according to my eyes. Rika too, she did it splendidly. Maybe I am a cardio person rather than yoga person. Maybe…

After yoga-ed, some of us continued having the breakfast – yours truly included.

Then, we walked to Smiley Beach where we would set off for a bicycling tour near Golden Palm Tree. I was among the last person to get a bike. So what was left for me was a tandem bicycle which I intended to take up with Huda. At the last minute, Huda was not confident in riding a tandem bicycle. She switched place with Helga. While riding a bicycle is normal, tandem bicycle adds a new dimension to cycling.

Helga functioned as “pilot” or “steerman” while I was the stoker or navigator. The pilot’s responsibility is to control the bike while the stoker is to generate power to assist the pilot to cycle. Our tandem cycling started uneasy until we get the rhythm. Then Helga asked me not to move the stoker’s steering. But how could I not? The steering was connected to his seat. If his seat moved, the steering would not be straight as purported. So one hand would extend a little further than the other. But he had a good point though. Weight shifting caused Helga difficulty in manoeuvring the bicycle. It may lead to crash or accident.

What to do I had no experience of riding a tandem bicycle then. Well, I didn’t have photo of us riding the tandem bicycle, they are all within my memory. This is how our cycling tour went:-